DOMESTICATED NATURE. 



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Domesticated 



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NATURE 



Ideal Investigation of Bird Life. 



"Is it wrong' or cruel to keep birds in 

 cages?" 



The wrong or right depends alto- 

 gether upon the purpose, and the 

 cruelty or the absence of it depends 

 upon the method and care. In motives 

 and methods the ideal has been attained 

 by The Worthington Society of Shaw- 

 nee-on-Delaware, Monroe County, 

 Pennsylvania. Mr. Charles C. Worth- 

 ington has intense love of birds and 

 abundant means for making that love 

 efficient. His manager. Mr. Charles W. 

 Miller, is an enthusiastic worker, in 

 fact a veritable hustler, whose enthusi- 

 asm is manifested in best scientific 



methods. He knows how to do it, what 

 is to be sought, and then he spares no 

 effort to attain the desired results. 



His first assistant, Miss Cheney, is 

 as gentle and shy as a goldfinch, and 

 comes and goes through the maze of 

 cages as noiselessly as does the owl 

 through the forest. Her voice is low 

 and sweet in striking contrast to her 

 tiny pets which she feeds as regularly 

 and faithfully as would a mother bird. 

 The little ones are always clamorously 

 appreciative of the insect or the myste- 

 rious mixture compounded from a vari- 

 ety of bins, bottles and baskets by Mr. 

 Miller. Even the man-of-all-work and 

 the boy who chases insects all dav long- 



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AS ONE APPPROACHES THE DOOR A PARROT CALLS CHEERILY, "HOW D'Y' DO?" 



